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armour'd

armour'd is the obsolete form of armored.

armour'd is the simple past and past participle of armour.

Meaning of armored

Adjective

armored (comparative more armored, superlative most armored)

  1. Clad or equipped with arms or armor.
  2. Covered with armor, as a ship or the face of a fortification; armor-plated.
    • They came with horses and armored vehicles, carrying rifles and in tactical gear in the middle of what is the heart of immigrant Los Angeles. But there were few of their supposed targets to be found Monday — immigrants without documentation.2025 July 7, Melissa Gomez, Rachel Uranga and Brittny Mejia, “Heavily armed immigration agents descend on L.A.’s MacArthur Park”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025

Meaning of armour

Verb

armour (third-person singular simple present armours, present participle armouring, simple past and past participle armoured)

  1. British standard spelling of armor.

See all 5 meanings of armour

Forms of armour'd

comparativemore armour'd
superlativemost armour'd

Words formed from armour'd

Questions about armour'd

What is armour'd the obsolete form of?
Armour'd is the obsolete form of armored.

Words near armour'd in the dictionary

  1. Armos
  2. armour
  3. armour plate
  4. armour plates
  5. armour plating
  6. armour'd
  7. armour-piercing
  8. armour-plated
  9. armourbearer
  10. armourbearers
  11. armoured

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Adapted from Wiktionary: armour'd (page history and authors); armored (page history and authors); armour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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